No, that was LBJ by a country mile. He sank further into the tank recently in my mind when his newly released tapes had him admitting that Vietnam (at least doing it his way) was unwinnable, but that he didn't think he could afford to "lose," and so contented himself like a deer in headlights with a state of ineffectual equipoise in which a few dozen American troops flowed down the facet into LBJ's witches' brew bathtub each week, matched by few dozen troops going down the drain. In other words, the policy was with malice aforethought.
I think he knew the evil he was doing, since it not only poltically destroyed him, but also physically. May he not rest in peace. Sorry to be so immoderate about this. It isn't typically like me. :)